Tonle Sap lake of the dry seasonby Satoshi Takahashi

Daily life of the dry season in Kompong Luong floating village

Tonle Sap lake is the largest fresh water lake in south east asia.
The lake is located in the middle of Cambodia country.
There are floating villages more than 100.
Cambodians, Vietnamese and Khmer Muslims are live in the lake.
Kompong Luong floating village is in the 4-hour place to northwest from Phnom Penh of the capital.
The population of this village is about 4,000.
70% of people living in this village are Vietnamese.
There are Christian and Buddhist.
They have continued in the faith of their fathers.
Most of them live as a petty fishermen.
Their ancestors came to Cambodia from Vietnam as an emigrant fishermen more than 100 years ago.
However, people leaving the village year by year.
Because recently catches of fish have fallen sharply because of overfishing and water pollution.
Villagers repeat move several times to the deep place of the depth of the water in the dry season.